Stępina Explained

Stępina
Settlement Type:Village
Total Type: 
Subdivision Type:Country
Subdivision Type1:Voivodeship
Subdivision Name1:Subcarpathian
Subdivision Type2:County
Subdivision Name2:Strzyżów
Subdivision Type3:Gmina
Subdivision Name3:Frysztak
Coordinates:49.8833°N 55°W
Pushpin Map:Poland
Pushpin Label Position:bottom
Population Total:920
Population Footnotes:(approx.)

Stępina pronounced as /pl/ is a village in the administrative district of Gmina Frysztak, within Strzyżów County, Subcarpathian Voivodeship, in south-eastern Poland.[1] It lies approximately 7km (04miles) north-west of Frysztak, 160NaN0 west of Strzyżów, and 360NaN0 south-west of the regional capital Rzeszów.

World War II

Stępina is the location of one of Hitler's bunkers called Anlage Süd, built in with slave-labor from the Szebnie concentration camp nearby.[2] Over the course of the camp's operation some 10,000 people perished, including Soviet prisoners of war, Polish Jews, non-Jewish Poles, as well as Ukrainians and Romani people.

The remains of the camp in Szebnie were entered by the Soviets on 8 September 1944 during counter-offensive of the Red Army.[3]

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Central Statistical Office (GUS)  - TERYT (National Register of Territorial Land Apportionment Journal) . 2008-06-01 . Polish.
  2. Book: Surviving the Concentration Camps . Taylor & Francis . Surviving the Holocaust: A Life Course Perspective . 12 July 2010 . 4 July 2013 . Ronald Berger . 91–92 . 978-0203848517 . Google Books.
  3. Web site: Obóz w Szebniach (Camp in Szebnie) . Region Jasielski, nr 3 (39) . 2003 . 4 July 2013 . Jacek Bracik, Józef Twaróg . . Polish . unfit . https://web.archive.org/web/20100201015314/http://b.1asphost.com/jaslo/oboz.html . February 1, 2010 .